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FormerLawClerk said...: Cracker Barrel has caved. Close your shorts. Good job, everyone! We made BILLIONS.; 8/26/25, 7:08 PM
rhhardin said...: "Rudder left full. The entire flank ahead," he gave an order.

WWII documentaries on YouTube have been taken over by AI voice and scripting. It goes along okay but seems to lose the plot and wander to other plots, never reaching a point.

I happened to be watching this one

It's sort of plausible but as it goes on it becomes clear that the hamster is dead.

The death blow is inability to make sense of battle vignettes.; 8/26/25, 7:10 PM
buwaya said...: Starship launched. So far so good, crossing fingers. Whole family is watching, some professionally.; 8/26/25, 7:16 PM
Jaq said...: We had such a light show over the mountains this morning, the sun was poking through the clouds in slanting shafts, and columns of rain were falling, blowing in the other direction, lit by the shafts of sunlight, so it made a criss cross of light show like I don't remember ever seeing.; 8/26/25, 7:17 PM
buwaya said...: Something blew, and there was debris floating near the Raptor engines. The vehicle doesn't seem to have been affected though. Crossing fingers harder.; 8/26/25, 7:20 PM
buwaya said...: Some test tiles blew off and the aerodynamic flaps are a bit shredded, but it seems to be coming to splashdown as intended.; 8/26/25, 7:37 PM
buwaya said...: Splashdown.; 8/26/25, 7:38 PM
john mosby said...: The individualized AI instructional pods are here!

For $65,000 a year, a teacher-less AI private school comes to Virginia

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/08/26/alpha-school-virginia-ai-education/

RR
JSM; 8/26/25, 7:47 PM
Leland said...: Starship flight looked to meet most objectives. Both vehicles had controlled landings. Needs some work on the TPS, but that was expected. Lots of good data.; 8/26/25, 8:04 PM
NKP said...: Nothing like a launch. Attended many. Launch Control is awesome but nothing like being in a bunker as close as you can get. Kinda like what the end of the world would be like, I think. Rockets exploding, fire blasting, the ROAR, the Earth
trembling, something the size of a tall building slowly at first, inching above its perch. Then faster, and faster…. How was that possible. Very humbling. I watched first Shuttle launch in great fear of “the worst”. In the years leading to launch, I been at countless program reviews, individual systems reviews. One impossible solution after another was found and reported on. Then sitting around airports waiting for flights after “official” proceedings with guys from NASA, military, industry.
After a cocktail or two, a common theme was, “Fuck, I hopeit works…. The heat shield tiles were much discussed/cursed. All ended well until it didn’t. The Challenger was doomed by human error and risk too many accepted.; 8/26/25, 8:08 PM
FullMoon said...: The left is disgusting. Prices have been coming down since Trump took office. Biden's eight dollar eggs are now 3 bucks at the corner store .
Gas is even 75 cents a gallon less.

In unrehearsed, expletive laden rant, Democrat Congressman Eric Swalwell insists Trump send military to grocery stores to force lower prices..; 8/26/25, 8:09 PM
FullMoon said...: And, Swalwell "remembers" D-Day, as if he was there.; 8/26/25, 8:12 PM
Dave Begley said...: Had my oral argument today. Made the NE S. Ct. Laugh. Affirmed.

Fairly sure the case will be decided on harmless error issue. Evidence issue.

They really went after my opponent. But in a Nebraska nice way.; 8/26/25, 8:13 PM
Narr said...: @rhhardin710PM--

Already at sec 15 it's "new warships straight off the assembly line"!

I'm beginning to think that Gresham's Law applies to AI.; 8/26/25, 8:14 PM
Eva Marie said...: Congrats.; 8/26/25, 8:18 PM
gadfly said...: I honestly don't understand the operating concepts of Cracker Barrel which serves tiny meal portions for their ever- increasing prices, including extremely slow service, and serving cold food cooked by the untrained who wouldn't know how good food should taste. Restaurants are for eating, and all this bullshit about "Woke" and whether or not you can fuck your sister but not your gay partner has nothing to do with any of this.

Changing a logo is a never mind, fellas. Close 'em down - all 4500 stores.; 8/26/25, 8:20 PM
FullMoon said...: "Dave Begley said...
Had my oral argument today. Made the NE S. Ct. Laugh. Affirmed.

Fairly sure the case will be decided on harmless error issue. Evidence issue."

WINNING!
Next up, Paramount Frankenstein 2 movie.; 8/26/25, 8:27 PM
Big Mike said...: In Scotland a14-year-old girl named Mayah Sommers has been charged with possession of a knife after viral footage showed her and a twelve years old girl being harassed and filmed by at least one Muslim migrant. The firl chases the would-be predator off by brandishing a knife and an axe, so of course she is the one being charged by Scottish authorities. I note that no "true Scotsman" comes along to help the girls out.

There's a reason why Scotsmen wear skirts.; 8/26/25, 8:37 PM
Old and slow said...: SpaceX was do for a win. It amazes me that so many people are hoping he fails at his various endeavors. He is the best possible example of what the US can achieve. No one else in the world even comes close.; 8/26/25, 8:38 PM
Dave Begley said...: Thanks, Full Moon!

Now thinking of Sydney Sweeney as the female lead instead of Emily Blunt.; 8/26/25, 8:38 PM
Old and slow said...: Due for a win...; 8/26/25, 8:38 PM
Iman said...: A friend tells me that Cracker Barrel did a 180 on the change a few hours ago. Stock jumped $6+ a share in after market trading.

I think I ate at one back in the early 80s that they had at either the Orange Mall or South Coast Plaza in SoCal. Nothing much memorable about it.; 8/26/25, 8:43 PM
Achilles said...: How well is Trump's crime cleanup in DC going?

This is Chris Cilliza from the Hill.

That is how well it is going.

And Trump got Brandon Johnson to Butterfield himself already.; 8/26/25, 8:50 PM
Gospace said...: Somewhere today I read that Trump's EO was an obvious trap, with big flashing letters above it saying- "It's a trap!" (didn't mention Admiral Ackbar's voice yelling it out...)

And someone, of course, fell into it. IIRC- he burned a US Flag on National Park property. Some national park rules and regulation that everyone must follow are really simple. Like- no fires, any kind, including burning flags, except in designated areas. So- he can be prosecuted to the full extent of the law- for making a fire in a non-designated area.

And, as bonus- appear in GOP campaign ads showing a Democrat joyfully burning a US Flag.

Trump is a master communicator, manipulating the other side into doing just what he wants them to do.; 8/26/25, 8:56 PM
FullMoon said...: "Now thinking of Sydney Sweeney as the female lead instead of Emily Blunt."

Nice knockers.
Any other potential stars?; 8/26/25, 8:57 PM
MikeD said...: Selena Zito is a treasure beyond value:
MIDDLETOWN, Pennsylvania — When judging the nation's character, the media tend to gravitate toward its loudest voices, its most extreme measures, its deepest grudges. The result is a loss of all subtlety and nuance.

In the days and weeks following Aug. 26, when our nation lost 13 service members in a deadly terror attack in Afghanistan, something profound happened across the country that few in the national media have noticed: simple but meaningful tributes to honor those American lives lost.

https://www.creators.com/read/salena-zito/09/21/americans-have-not-forgotten-the-13-soldiers; 8/26/25, 9:20 PM
Mr. T. said...: Democrat Volksgesichthof thug Hannah Duggan does not get judicial immunity for committing crimes just because she is "on the job when she commits them."

Stand by for Robert Kook and PedoFredo FredoramJonJonsonsson to explain with their law degree staright from a cracker jack box that it no one is above the law wxcept when it's (D)IFFERENT.; 8/26/25, 9:28 PM
Jamie said...: gadfly, you talk as if you're awfully familiar with Cracker Barrel's food! I don't understand why you'd keep going there if the food is cold and prepared by the untrained who wouldn't know good food if it came along and kissed them on the cheek.

Of course, your incest comment is on brand... for you.

I try to avoid ad hominems, but in this case, you started it. We're in the new millennium now, and the post just below this one is about happy, gay Republicans, so maybe avoid the "knuckle dragging barbarians" thing if recognition of the validity of homosexuality as a "lifestyle" is your standard of civilization.; 8/26/25, 9:29 PM
Aggie said...: I ate at a Cracker Barrel once. And that was back when the food was supposedly better, before the reports of it 'going downhill'. Have to agree with you, Gadfly.; 8/26/25, 9:32 PM
Original Mike said...: "Bouycam" recording the Starship landing was AWESOME!!!!!
How did they pull that off? They had that kind of control of the landing coordinates? I know they need that when they get to landing it back at the pad, but am I really impressed!; 8/26/25, 9:40 PM
buwaya said...: They knew the Indian ocean location they were guiding it to, and pre-deployed a buoy there. The rocket guidance system is very accurate.
I regret I am too old for this fun and games, but I'm glad my kids can do this.; 8/26/25, 10:02 PM
Aggie said...: Democrats win Iowa special election, Republicans lose their supermajority, necessary for pushing through confirmations.; 8/26/25, 10:07 PM
Jim at said...: Democrats win Iowa special election

lonejustice celebrates; 8/26/25, 10:12 PM
Yancey Ward said...: Jamie, Gadfly has almost certainly not been in a Cracker Barrel in decades, if ever.

Gospace, yeah, the flag EO was bait- I expect to see lots of Democrats out burning them now to "resist Trump" not realizing they stepped in dogshit.; 8/26/25, 10:13 PM
Vance said...: That poor Scottish girl who is, no doubt, being gang raped by the Muslim police for the crime of defending her sister....

Much to the cheers of our immigration loving leftists who are demanding we do the same here: Let unlimited immigrants do whatever they want.; 8/26/25, 10:30 PM
Jamie said...: Jamie, Gadfly has almost certainly not been in a Cracker Barrel in decades, if ever.

Oh, I know!

I just object to the blatant classism, particularly when someone like our gadfly identifies Cracker Barrel diners with incest-supporters and homophobes, tying the food quality to those attitudes as if only a true gourmet could possibly be ok with the gay folk (particularly ironic given the post below this one) and as if MAPs don't gravitate to the Democrat party these days.; 8/26/25, 10:33 PM
Jupiter said...: The problem is white girls who object to being raped by subhuman orcazoids. This is actually a problem that will solve itself, as long as no humans intervene.; 8/26/25, 10:34 PM
Jupiter said...: Similarly, the car-jacking problem in DC has been traced to "yutes". Those yutishoids just gonna yute. No orcazoid issues here!; 8/26/25, 10:40 PM
buwaya said...: Well, I'm a homophobe by modern standards, and would a supporter of the Inquisition, if we can arrange that. This is our local restaurant (across the bridge, in the Casco Viejo, one of many really) -

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g187454-d23310082-Reviews-Restaurante_Aura-Bilbao_Province_of_Vizcaya_Basque_Country.html

The quality-price ratio around here is off the scale. Us reactionaries have it very good.; 8/26/25, 10:44 PM
Big Mike said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 8/26/25, 10:44 PM
Big Mike said...: I note that no feminist organization expressed any support for the Scottish girl arrested for chasing off her would-be rapist. Solidarity? For Hillary Clinton running for President, yes, but never for an adolescent female resisting rape.; 8/26/25, 10:51 PM
Jupiter said...: See, the way it works, is like this. Say you've got a rattlesnake in your back yard. He's a beautiful snake, six feet long, with handsome reticulations all along his gorgeous length. You find this snake inspiring, and you'd love to coexist with this snake. And so you say to the snake, "I will agree to refrain from whacking your head off with a shovel, if you will agree to refrain from biting me and my family, and injecting us with your deadly poison". The problem is, snakes don't make deals. They don't enter into contractual relations. You can make all the promises you want to the snake, but the snake just does what snakes do. That's why you can't sue a snake. They are incapable of entering binding contracts. The notion is alien to them.
If you want to reach an accommodation with a snake, start by sharpening your shovel.; 8/26/25, 10:55 PM
Jamie said...: Juliet, I have killed far too many snakes with a dull shovel and heartily second your remarks, even though I know they are allegorical.

I don't like killing snakes. I like snakes, when they're harmless to me and mine. But when I see a snake in my backyard at night and can't determine its species, I kill it, because it might kill my dog or hurt one of us if it's the wrong kind.

I really need to sharpen that shovel.; 8/26/25, 10:59 PM
Jamie said...: *Jupiter, of course!; 8/26/25, 11:00 PM
Big Mike said...: Mark Guiducci is the global editorial director of Vanity Fair, and he is reported to be negotiating eith Melania Trump to appear on the cover. As First Lady she has been on the cover of the Mexican edition, but not on the US edition. Some of the junior and mid-level staffers are threatening to quit if this happens, but frankly I doubt it. Jobs in today’s publishing industry seem to be pretty scarce.; 8/26/25, 11:08 PM
Big Mike said...: FWIW, the Taurus Judge revolver can shoot .420 shotgun shells. It means you wouldn’t have to come within the length of a shovel handle of the rattler.; 8/26/25, 11:13 PM
Jamie said...: We only have copperheads where I am - they're not too bad and they don't tend to be longer than a couple of feet, so shovel handle-length is sufficient, so far. Plus I think my stupid HOA would object...

I have yet to encounter a cottonmouth, which I understand are also in my area, though rarer. For those I think I call my heavily armed neighbor who doesn't give a hoot about the HOA.; 8/26/25, 11:21 PM
Jim at said...: re: snakes

Back in the summer of '83, I was asst manager at a resort/rv park on the Snake River just below Lower Granite dam. Wonderful place.

So, I'm checking in a guy and his family (from Australia) and he asks about rattle snakes. They're very common in the area - don't grow very large - but you really have to go off the beaten path to run into one.

I assured him he needn't worry.

As the evening is quieting down in the campground, fires going out and people turning in ... I'm making last rounds.

And I hear a blood-curdling scream. It echoed off the canyon walls. And I had a feeling ....

I run to the area where I heard the scream and when I got to the spot, sure enough. It was him.

Stepping off his trailer onto the ground, he landed onto a good-sized bull snake. Barefoot.

I confirmed it wasn't a rattler, settled him down a bit but also knew there was no way I could convince him it was harmless.

He insisted on the shovel treatment.; 8/26/25, 11:43 PM
n.n said...: I'm a homophobe by modern standards

You're not alone. That's why people, including homosexuals insist on referring to themselves by some seemingly innocuous term: "gay", etc, and are desperate to socially distance from simulants who are also in the transgender spectrum. #NoJudgment #NoLabels #Pro-Choice; 8/27/25, 12:33 AM
gadfly said...: Members of the National Guard deployed to D.C. will pick up trash and work on dozens of “beautification and restoration” projects, the military task force overseeing all troops in the District said Monday.

Indeed! So how is that DC crime, already down 31% without Trump, be sliding south when the troops are actually spending their time picking up trash inefficiently in bags instead of using garbage trucks?

I guess the Mayor can now fire Waste Management.; 8/27/25, 1:45 AM
planetgeo said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 8/27/25, 2:40 AM
planetgeo said...: gad, it's amazing to watch you and your fellow leftists continue to think of our cities as some kind of "American Serengeti" that must be kept wild, with predators free to roam and, you know, occasionally take down a few ruminant normals. I can actually see you and Kak and Inga sitting stop your Range Rover in your Great White Progressive safari jackets as you take notes in your journal, noting how sad some of the carnage might be. But of course, your ethic is that one must never interfere and just let the wild be wild.

I pray for you Great White Progressives, gad. I pray that someday your Range Rover runs out of gas in the wild.; 8/27/25, 2:43 AM
Saint Croix said...: I was surprised on another thread to find out that Althouse never cared for "Ring of Fire." What? What? One of the best songs of all time!

Art is so subjective, I swear.

She went on to confuse it with I Walk the Line, which is an okay song. And she wrote a bit about lines and circles. The impression I got was that she didn't really care for lines or circles.

"Ring of Fire" is fun because it's about passion, and falling in love when you ought not to, and sin. Beautiful song.

I read somewhere, that Johnny Cash's first wife claimed that June Carter did not write that song, Johnny did. And she also said that June was too stupid to understand what the song was about. And I was like, wow, somebody is still mad, 40 years later.

Also, news to me, is that the co-writer of the song, Merle Kilgore, wanted to license it to a company making hemorrhoid cream. You ever notice, sometimes fans of art like art more than the artists do?

Anyway, it's a song about circles, or passion, or falling in love, or going to hell, or a certain female body part, or Preparation H. You be the judge.; 8/27/25, 3:45 AM
rehajm said...: John Cochrane writes on The Institutional Structure of the Federal Reserve here; 8/27/25, 3:54 AM
Saint Croix said...: I just saw A Complete Unknown, which was pretty good. It underwhelmed me, because there's no bad guy, and without a bad guy, you really don't have a drama. And there's no comedy, either.

I did laugh pretty hard when the folk music guy ripped one into Peter, Paul, and Mary. I was like, holy shit! Peter, Paul, and Mary is not pure enough for you?; 8/27/25, 4:32 AM
Big Mike said...: Typo in my post at 11:13. It should read .410 shotgun shells. I could really, really use a Preview function.; 8/27/25, 4:33 AM
Eva Marie said...: “leftists continue to think of our cities as some kind of "American Serengeti" that must be kept wild, with predators free to roam and, you know, occasionally take down a few ruminant normals.”
They’re so above it all.; 8/27/25, 4:44 AM
john mosby said...: gadfly: "the troops are actually spending their time picking up trash inefficiently in bags instead of using garbage trucks?"

Before you can put the trash in a truck, someone has to put it in a bag. In many areas of DC, no one has the basic civilizational indoctrination to do that. And no one has the basic civilizational indoctrination to pick it up and put it in a bag, even just in front of their own home or business. So you get an environment that looks like no one cares. And then you get crime.

So as a broken windows thing, you bring in some external party to pick up the trash off the ground so the city looks a little bit less hellish.

Don't understand why you would be against this. It's a nonviolent root-causes approach. And it's socialist.

RR
JSM; 8/27/25, 4:49 AM
john mosby said...: Jamie: "I really need to sharpen that shovel."

All Quiet On The Western Front (of your house).

RR
JSM; 8/27/25, 4:51 AM
john mosby said...: In the Scottish axe girl video:

- the heavily foreign-accented cameraman keeps saying "yeah yeah show the knife." either he was wandering the streets looking for someone to provoke into a filmable incident, or he has been conditioned to whip out his Starmerphone at the first sign of resistance.

- I understand the knife. There's a vicious cycle of knife crime in Britain driving more people to carry knives defensively, which causes an increase in 'knife crime' (ie, people getting caught with knives). But that is a huge knife.

- And what is the deal with the axe? Who the hell walks around with an axe as an everyday carry? And the urban scene doesn't make it seem like the girls just happened to be doing yard work or splitting kindling. Is the whole thing a collusive project?

- Where is JK Rowling? Bet she wanted an axe when her foreign husband was abusing her.

RR
JSM; 8/27/25, 5:01 AM
gadfly said...: planetgeo: If you followed this site you would know that that I am one of the original Never Trumpers from 10 years ago, that Ronald Reagan was my favorite president and that I was a grand fan of of Rush Limbaugh until he jumped into Dumb Donald's pocket.

As for a Range Rover, it is an expensive , unreliable piece of shit. Land Rover is now owned by Tata Motors in India and models are manufactured all over the Far East including China. Range Rovers are now made exclusively in India.

As for a safari jacket, you are obviously talking about Don Jr. wearing one on his trips to Africa to kill and export illegal game.

Inga is a true conservative but I am unsure about Kak , who drifts the wrong way sometimes.; 8/27/25, 5:17 AM
rehajm said...: When we’d go on safari we had books of the species, mammals birds reptiles and we’d make a note on the page of where and when we saw them, what we observed, etc…; 8/27/25, 5:25 AM
Dave Begley said...: Full Moon:

Hugh Jackman as the creature.; 8/27/25, 5:28 AM
Political Junkie said...: Life is good. God is good.
Went to bed at 930pm, woke up at 1230am.
Could not get back to sleep.
Got up and started some "must complete" work.
Completed after 4 hours.
Stress level down.
Thanks be to God.
Breathe out!; 8/27/25, 5:40 AM
Leland said...: If you followed the blog for just a week, you know Gadfly often writes about topics he knows nothing about. There is a word for that behavior. It is called lying.; 8/27/25, 5:47 AM
Dave Begley said...: buwaya:

Do you live in Spain? Have you visited Loyola?; 8/27/25, 5:49 AM
Dave Begley said...: Outside the Jesuit high school in Minneapolis there was a shooting during the day. One killed.; 8/27/25, 5:51 AM
Christopher B said...: "Reagan was my favorite President" proves nothing. Plenty of us here were around when the same globalist elitist Democrat-lite gang claiming to be Republicans who now slander Donald Trump were doing the same thing to Ronald Reagan. "Voodoo Economics" was coined by none other than Pappy George Bush. Sure, he's your favorite President, since he's never going to hold office again.; 8/27/25, 6:03 AM
Christopher B said...: john mosby, per this post at AofSHQ the girl with the knife and axe is reportedly the older sister (or a friend) of another girl who was the one initially approached. I suspect she was at home and armed herself before coming to the girl's aid. She doesn't appear to have anything in which to carry the weapons other than her hands.; 8/27/25, 6:14 AM
Old and slow said...: The nice thing about rattlesnakes is that they are very easy to identify. I know a couple of people who have been bitten by them, and they were both trying to capture them humanely so they could move them away from their houses. I don't like killing rattlesnakes, but I refuse to have them living next to me.; 8/27/25, 6:32 AM
Iman said...: You killed the vibe @3:45am, Saint Croix!; 8/27/25, 6:34 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Ring of Fire is about sunrises.; 8/27/25, 6:52 AM
Jaq said...: " It underwhelmed me, because there's no bad guy, and without a bad guy, you really don't have a drama." I don't know if you are joking or not, but I'll bite.

I have been having fun running old novels, public domain ones, through AI having do "computational narrativology" analyses on them. It's very enlightening. It doesn't analyze them itself, which really just means spitting back what people have said about a book in writing in the past, but applies rules developed by people like Joseph Campbell (The Heroe's Journey) OK, rules written by the people Joseph Campbell cribbed off of, who were mostly European and studied folktales.
Anyway, I ran a couple of chapters of a novel I had read and enjoyed through it, and it had a scene in it that I liked, because it was cinematic, and funny, but I thought it was just a throwaway scene, written to entertain 19th century readers when read aloud, but AI showed me that the scene was absolutely essential to the plot, if it hadn't been written, one like it would have been required, and that it advanced the plot on a "mythic" level even as I thought it was just a pleasant distraction. It was able to explain, using rules of the Greimas’s Actantial Model, basically all of the major turns in the novel, even predict them based on the opening chapters, although one of its predictions was so on the nose, I suspected cheating, even as it said that it wouldn't peek.

So yes, I think that if you had a certain kind of student, and certain kinds of professors, you could put together a pretty decent university, allowing the students to use AI to their heart's content, and give those students a solid 21st century education. I feel like I learned more about literature in a couple of hours with AI than I did in many of my classes. Though the reading for those classes probably gave me the foundation for these discussions with professor AI.

It would be interesting to have the script for A Complete Unknown and run it through the myth analysis and see if there are hidden layers, though.; 8/27/25, 6:56 AM
rehajm said...: My Idaho family has places in town with rattlesnake dens. Big one by the golf course. Everyone mostly lives with them. Mostly. They lost the guy on the mower when he was mowing a ditch and he got off to move debris and was bit. Then there’s the incident at the Wal Mart garden center when the guy bent down to move a stick out of the aisle and the stick was a young rattler. You don’t want bit by the young ones as they give you everything they have. Well, the hospital didn’t know that so they refused to use their precious antivenin for just a baby bite. Guy lost big chunks of his hand and arm. I hear he doesn’t worry about money as the Waltons took care of him and his attorney…; 8/27/25, 7:03 AM
Jaq said...: Basically the spine of A Complete Unknown is the love story with Joan Baez, because, well they have to have something to hold an audience, just like the spine of Maestro, about a gay man, Leonard Bernstein, was his relationship with his wife, who understood he was gay, and overlooked his many affairs, yet eventually she.... you get the idea, they wove that in to hold it together for an audience, at least half of whom are going to be women and the assumption is that they would be bored by much of it without that.

You should watch the life of Einstein that is on Prime. Basically his scientific achievements are secondary to his love life, which according to that documentary, well Einstein liked the ladies and the ladies liked him. The only item mentioned out of his famous four papers, the annus mirabilis papers, is E=MC^2, of course. So it's not about his work, it's written that way because that's what they think women want, and women viewers are everything, since they control most consumer spending.; 8/27/25, 7:08 AM
Humperdink said...: My son wants to move back to western Colorado. He lived in one of the most beautiful places on earth. Mrs. Dink and I visited multiple times. They want us to follow them out. Spouse is leaning heavily in the affirmative.

Looking at the political dynamics is downright ugly. Both houses in the state government are nearly 2-1 Commie-Pinko. Governor Polis is a hardcore multimillionaire lefty, among other negatives. Just passed onerous gun control laws which take hold next years. Want to have a gun show? Forget it.

A hearty thank you to all the Californians who poisoned the state.; 8/27/25, 7:19 AM
Achilles said...: Everyone needs to prepare themselves.

Ever since Biden ordered the seizing of Russian Assets foreign countries have been reducing their holdings of US treasuries and dollars. Before Biden fucked everything up countries owned 34% of treasuries. Now it is down to 21% and there is 6.4 trillion to refinance by the end of the year.

But you need to remember that the Fed is apolitical animal now. The reason they are not reducing rates is to make that expense as high as possible. And you must understand that Powell's war on Trump has one target: American savings.

The foreign buyers of treasuries are dropping out because the dollar is no longer safe. If a Democrat gets in office countries know that Democrats like to take people's stuff.

So the Fed has 2 bad options:

1. Cajole/Force US Banks to pick up the slack and print some money for them to hold the debt.

2. Keep an indefinite unsold out auction going.

The first one is a direct shot at savings. The second one is declaring a default. I believe Powell is fully capable of taking one for the team and declaring default. Powell is just as vested in taking Trump out as any democrat.

With X up it wont be long before the truth of the matter is widely known but the full court press would be on to Blame Trump for the default. They will fail but there would still be a default.

As Trump sets the stage for a blowout win in the midterms be ready for something like a Fed default to land.; 8/27/25, 7:31 AM
lonejustice said...: The tide may be turning: U.S. District Judge Thomas Cullen, who was appointed by Trump, called the Trump administration's attacks on district judges across the country a "smear" and "unprecedented and unfortunate."

"Indeed, over the past several months, principal officers of the Executive (and their spokespersons) have described federal district judges across the country as 'left-wing,' 'liberal,' 'activists,' 'radical,' 'politically minded,' 'rogue,' 'unhinged,' 'outrageous, overzealous, [and] unconstitutional,' '[c]rooked,' and worse," Cullen wrote. "Although some tension between the coordinate branches of government is a hallmark of our constitutional system, this concerted effort by the Executive to smear and impugn individual judges who rule against it is both unprecedented and unfortunate."; 8/27/25, 7:36 AM
Jaq said...: People like Austin Bay write that Russia is on the verge of economic collapse in order to keep us vested in the war, "We are going to win! Just a few more tens of billions in weapons! Look at their bad harvest!" When the reality is that European countries are either in recession, or lying about it, Europe is borrowing money as Germany tossed aside its debt controls to fight a war that is very unpopular in Germany. AfD is the most popular party in Germany right now, and Merz can only envy the approval numbers of Joe Biden at the end of his term. Nigel Farage is twice as popular, in the UK, as Labor and the Tories combined (who are both all in on war with Russia) France is being run by diktat from an authoritarian Macron, who could not win a majority in the assembly, and oddly, a few of Macron's political enemies have oddly committed suicide. Probably Ukrainian operatives helping him out, but maybe it's him behind it.

Yeah, this war that the people don't want, that is supported by a propaganda campaign that might have embarrassed Hitler, is not working out for us. Russia was supposed to have collapsed by now, and Biden was supposed to be overseeing the looting of a country with 11 time zones, handing out prizes to his cronies, while keeping 10%. It was such a nice dream.; 8/27/25, 7:42 AM
Jaq said...: You know what else is "unprecedented and unfortunate,' when some judge in Hawaii arrogates presidential power to himself based, not on the law, or the evidence, but on his personal opinion of the motives of the president.; 8/27/25, 7:44 AM
Original Mike said...: "You should watch the life of Einstein that is on Prime. Basically his scientific achievements are secondary to his love life, which according to that documentary, well Einstein liked the ladies and the ladies liked him. The only item mentioned out of his famous four papers, the annus mirabilis papers, is E=MC^2, of course. So it's not about his work, "

Thanks for warning me off. I was thinking of watching it.; 8/27/25, 8:31 AM
Big Mike said...: @lonejustice, tell me, please, in his ignorant diatribe did U.S. District Judge Thomas Cullen address U. S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Gorsuch’s rebuke to U. S. District judges everywhere (in an opinion joined by U. S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Kavanaugh)? Justice Gorsuch seems to have become exasperated by the notion so many District judges appear to have that they can, with impunity, ignore U. S. Supreme Court rulings? If District judges wish to engage in behavior that is both equally unprecedented and, more importantly, blatantly unconstitutional, should not they expect some response?; 8/27/25, 8:42 AM
john mosby said...: Achilles: “ As Trump sets the stage for a blowout win in the midterms be ready for something like a Fed default to land.”

He could lock up the Fed for insurrection. If walking between the rope lines in the rotunda is insurrection, deliberate economic warfare must be.

Or flat out treason - making war on the US. Nothing in the Constitution says it has to be a shooting war.

The Fed security is run by retired Secret Service guys - they wouldn’t shoot at federal agents or US soldiers to save Powell’s worthless ass.

RR
JSM; 8/27/25, 8:44 AM
Big Mike said...: I don’t know how many people know this, but Einstein was persuaded to will his brain to science after his death for study to see whether and how it varies from normal human brains. You know all those creases and folds in our brains? He had about twice as many. Suggestive.; 8/27/25, 8:46 AM
Josephbleau said...: I went to the Sweetwater TX rattlesnake roundup once, I got to go into the snake area and hold one and milk the venom into a funnel.

They are pretty strong and you hold them with two hands one near the head and one near the tail, and when you are done you just push both hands away from you and let go at once, then it flys away evenly. What they don’t tell you is that a pile of rattlesnakes smells bad, like dirty feet. But they do taste like chicken.; 8/27/25, 8:49 AM
Jersey Fled said...: “So how is that DC crime, already down 31% without Trump …..”

I guess you missed the part where the president of the DC police union stated publicly that the crime statistics are being purposely underreported. For political reasons.; 8/27/25, 8:57 AM
wildswan said...: I like the sunrise pictures partly because they are "ideas" to me. I know they aren't ideas as defined philosophically but they are sort of human ideas such as one might have after reading Bleak House or some some other long 19C novel. Middlemarch would be one of the gray pictures without a sun. Pickwick Papers would be a summer sunrise with the whole lake sparkling, baby ducks swimming. Inside me, I test political ideas against my "human ideas". How much is being left out by socialism?; 8/27/25, 8:58 AM
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Original Mike said...: "The tide may be turning: U.S. District Judge Thomas Cullen, who was appointed by Trump, called the Trump administration's attacks on district judges across the country a "smear" and "unprecedented and unfortunate."

The idea that among (what, 700 district judges?) there aren't some who are partisan activists is naive.; 8/27/25, 9:30 AM
Rusty said...: Re; Rattle snakes.
I grew up in DesPlaines and as a child I remember fathers in our neighborhood volunteering for the annual "rattlesnake round up". It seems we were infested with the "Mississauga" variety. They must have done a good job because growing up I never encountered one.
I did have a run in with one on an unnamed creek in the driftless. I had stepped off a ledge to enter the water and heard the unmistakable rattle. The little guy was on a ledge above me. I slowly backed up the trail I came down on.; 8/27/25, 9:57 AM
Saint Croix said...: Basically the spine of A Complete Unknown is the love story with Joan Baez

I agree with you

and Joan agrees with you

but Bob does not agree with you

and that would be a problem; 8/27/25, 10:05 AM
Yancey Ward said...: Gadfly's brain must have a surface as smooth as silk.; 8/27/25, 10:14 AM
Leland said...: I mostly agree with Achilles @7:31, enough so that the differences in opinion aren’t worth discussing.; 8/27/25, 10:15 AM
Saint Croix said...: I don't really talk to movies anymore

but if I was talking to that movie

I would say, "Get back in bed with Joan Baez, dummy!"

also

"Stay away from Hillary. What the fuck. Why is Hillary in this movie?"

People say that character is based on somebody specific, and I'm like, "Yeah, Hillary! And she's really annoying."

The other thing I noticed, there was no pot in the movie. I was like, where's the marijuana? Wasn't that a thing? Didn't he corrupt the Beatles? Strange that you add Johnny Cash and subtract the Beatles.

They really sanitized the Commie angle, and also the marijuana. I was looking for it, like J. Edgar Hoover. What are you smoking, cigarettes? Again?

I'm not saying J. Edgar Hoover would improve the movie. Maybe if he was wearing a dress. Did the FBI spy on Bob? And the FBI's like, "all he does is sing songs."; 8/27/25, 10:25 AM
Hassayamper said...: I know a couple of people who have been bitten by them, and they were both trying to capture them humanely so they could move them away from their houses. I don't like killing rattlesnakes, but I refuse to have them living next to me.

Same here. I leave them alone when I see them out in the woods (unlike my cowboy grandfather, who unhesitatingly killed every single rattlesnake and coyote that came within his view.)

But if they make it into my neighborhood, they die. I carry a sjambok (a long, semi-flexible cattle prod of South African origin) when I walk the dogs, and it is just the thing for breaking a snake's neck in a single blow from a safe distance.; 8/27/25, 10:34 AM
Old and slow said...: I understand ranchers who hate all rattlers and predators, but I'm happy enough to share the great outdoors with them, just not my yard.; 8/27/25, 11:48 AM
Enigma said...: Zerohedge is reporting that today's Minnesota anti-Catholic mass shooter was a transgender male-to-female named Robert/Robin Westman.

Youtube took down the page "Robin W" with a purported manifesto.

The children the left seeks to sacrifice (via transformations) have proven to be quite hateful and destructive. I wonder if this'll continue as long as the Janissaries did in the Ottoman Empire.; 8/27/25, 1:48 PM
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effinayright said...: Lem Vibe Bandit said...
Ring of Fire is about sunrises.
************
I've always thought the song was about the next-day consequences of eating spicy Indian food.

"And it burns, burns, burns...."; 8/27/25, 2:24 PM
n.n said...: A human being cannot change his sex. He is either transgender: homosexual, bisexual, or simulant. Perhaps transsocial exploiting social liberal club for "benefits" or following progressive principles to enjoy"burden" relief (i.e. abortion, planned personhood, human rites).; 8/27/25, 3:37 PM
NKP said...: The bad guy in Complete Unknown was resistance to change. Dylan was an explorer, not a settler

As for Joanie, “the cause” was everything but Dylan was impatient with people who just want to hear “that one song”

That said, Diamonds and Rust might be “Dylan’s” best song. Maybe better than the movie Complete Unknown.; 8/27/25, 7:31 PM